Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for halftone independent temporal color drift correction in a xerographic printer having high addressability. SOLUTION: The method for halftone independent temporal color drift correction includes steps of: printing a target set of basic patches including a patch having at least two resolutions and comprising a fundamental binary pattern independent of a halftone screen; measuring printer response from the target set; modeling a halftone independent characterization of the printer with a mathematical transformation using the measured response; modeling a first halftone dependent characterization of the printer with the mathematical transformation to generate a first predicted result using a halftone screen; comparing a measured response of the printer using the halftone screen with the predicted result to define a correction factor corresponding to the halftone screen; and modeling a second halftone dependent characterization of the printer using a predicted response of the fundamental binary pattern and the correction factor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compensate a color drift of halftone by reducing a prediction error in a color two-by-two printer model applied to a xerographic printer. SOLUTION: A method for compensating a color drift in a printer includes for each color channel, determining a first true tone response curve (TRC) for a color channel when the printer is in a first state; determining a first estimated tone response curve for the color channel when the printer is in the first state; determining a second estimated tone response curve for the color channel when the printer is in a second, color-drifted state relative to the first state; and mathematically predicting a second true tone response curve for the color channel using the first true tone response curve, the first estimated tone response curve, and the second estimated tone response curve. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an object-based adaptive document resizing method that utilizes segmentation information and then resizes a document component using an optimal technique for each component. SOLUTION: Objects included in a document are identified, the identified objects are classified, and a selected object is extracted from the document. A resizing technique is selected for the extracted object based on the classification, a resized object is created by applying the resizing technique selected for the selected object, and a new document is created with resized objects. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To delete a portion, that is not important, in an image without exerting any adverse influence upon visual balance of the image. SOLUTION: An image of a document to be resized is received (102) and seams are carved through the image according to seam carving techniques using an importance map of the image (104), energy of the carved seams is computed, and background seams composed of background pixels are identified based on the computed energy (106). Adjacent background seams are collected to form groups of background seams (108). A target number of seams to be removed for each background seam group is then determined (110) based on the widths of the background seam groups. Until the image becomes a target dimension, from each of the background seam groups, the target number of seams are deleted therefrom (112) and the image of the document resized by the deletion is supplied to an image output device (114). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT